Todd Devaney: Govt seeks supervision order for Star gunman

The state has applied for an emergency court order after the man who stormed a casino gym and tried to shoot his yoga teacher girlfriend was freed after more than a decade behind bars.

The State Government is seeking emergency court orders in a bid to keep track of notorious Star Casino gunman Todd Devaney after his sentence expired and authorities can no longer monitor his movements.

Parole officers had no way to keep watch over Devaney, a 51-year-old career criminal with links to bikies, after he officially served out his 13-year jail stint on November 7.

Devaney had been on parole since last November under strict conditions but this week was expecting to freely roam the community without being under the watchful eye of corrections for the first time since 2008.

However the State Government was last week granted a temporary 28-day extended supervision order in the Supreme Court against Devaney, two days before his sentence expired.

Todd Devaney, pictured, during his 2008 arrest.

The government is seeking a permanent order but that will not be decided on before Devaney sees two psychiatrists and their reports are shown to a Supreme Court judge.

His crimes in 2008 sent shockwaves through the city after he stormed into the Star Casino gym and fired shots at his girlfriend Holly Graham while she led a yoga class.

Devaney was obsessed at the time after his girlfriend broke up with him over his drug use, asking for an apprehended violence order for her protection.

His dramatic arrest saw him handcuffed with three guns, a wig and more than 100 rounds of ammo found in a backpack.

Devaney arrived at the casino in a taxi, paying a driver $20 for the trip and asking him to wait outside while he stormed in and fired three shots in the direction of Ms Graham before fleeing in a fake moustache and beard.

Ms Graham leaves the District Court in Sydney in 2008.

He pleaded guilty to shooting with intent to murder and was repeatedly denied parole down the years for refusing to enter treatment programs.

Documents tendered to court last week show that in the 12 years he spent in jail over the shooting Devaney committed 23 acts of constitutional misconduct including assaults on female corrections officers.

His long criminal history tendered to the court also detailed his previous links to the Nomads bikie gang and that a 2006 trip to Egypt saw him have a “religious experience” where he claimed to have found out the CIA were trying to kill him.

In 2018, two years before he was paroled, he threatened a woman running a program in jail in which he told her: “you’re a typical woman. Women shouldn’t have power over a man. You shouldn’t even have this job … I know your last name”.

Since his arrest Devaney reportedly assaulted female guards in prison and was involved in fights behind bars.

Last January he “denigrated” Ms Graham during a session with a psychiatrist and “spoke in a narcissistic manner about her, before saying that he ‘felt terrible’”.

His lawyers told the Supreme Court last week Devaney has not relapsed in the years since he left jail and was living a law abiding life which has seen him practice religion and join the Knights of the Southern Cross.

The State Government argued Devaney was still a risk to the community and was recently refused permission to attend army recruitment activities in what they say is a continued interest in professions involving guns.

His case will return to the Supreme Court in December.

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